‘A little bit of everything,’ was how one competitor was overheard referring to the conditions at this year’s Lighthouse to Lighthouse Race, in Westport CT. The ‘L2L’, as it’s affectionately known to the coolest of the cool in paddler lingo, is a fourteen mile total out and back course that launches [...]
I have become very parochial in my old age, rarely leaving the southern Maine town in which I live. But I know I need to venture out more, so when a 15 mile open water race in Narragansett Bay was advertised, I thought "Kinley, you should be able to struggle [...]
Danny Boy O Danny boy, the waves the waves are calling From crest to crest, down the waves we slide The summer’s gone and all the races falling ‘Tis you, ‘tis you must go out with the tide The JCR, Jamestown Counter Revolution was supposed to take place down in [...]
The venue was moved to the Narragansett Boat House in Providence, RI due to the impending storm. It never materialized. So some of the Best open ocean rowers in the Country had to rely on their flatwater skills for the 10 mile, no wind, super flat race today. Click to [...]
I met Dean Gardiner in Chicago in 1994. It was my second year of paddling and we were in Chicago at the start a month-long stage race from Chicago to New York. He’d recently won Molokai and the forecast for 20 knot winds for our 33 mile crossing of Lake [...]
